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  2. Business improvement district - Wikipedia

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    Business Improvement Districts Scotland is the national organisation and voice for BIDs in Scotland, [28] responsible for delivering the Scottish Government's BIDs programme, providing central support to developing BIDs, promoting and encouraging the development of BIDs across the country, whilst also working with operational BIDs to assist ...

  3. Economic development - Wikipedia

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    Job creation and retention through specific efforts in business finance, marketing, neighborhood development, workforce development, small business development, business retention and expansion, [24] technology transfer, and real estate development. This third category is a primary focus of economic development professionals.

  4. Business development - Wikipedia

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    Business development entails tasks and processes to develop and implement growth opportunities within and between organizations. [1] It is a subset of the fields of business, commerce and organizational theory. Business development is the creation of long-term value for an organization from customers, markets, and relationships. [2]

  5. Local economic development - Wikipedia

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    International development projects or national government projects can help to establish or enhance LED locally, but should not replace or displace local effort. As a consequence, the aim of an externally support should be to establish an effective LED process locally, not to solve the problems of the locality with regards to its economy.

  6. Community economic development - Wikipedia

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    Community economic development is an alternative to conventional economic development. Its central tenet is that "problems facing communities—unemployment, poverty, job loss, environmental degradation and loss of community control—need to be addressed in a holistic and participatory way." [3]

  7. Community-driven development - Wikipedia

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    Community-driven development (CDD) is an initiative in the field of development that provides control of the development process, resources and decision making authority directly to groups in the community. The underlying assumption of CDD projects are that communities are the best judges of how their lives and livelihoods can be improved and ...

  8. Waves of economic development - Wikipedia

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    The fifth-wave of economic development began in the 1990s with a two-fold interest in providing market solutions and regional strategies for development. The idea of a comparative advantage has been integral to the development of the fifth-wave. This wave has been marked by economic developers who work to emphasize unmet demand, function as a ...

  9. Community-based program design - Wikipedia

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    Benefits of community-based program design include gaining insight into the social context of an issue or problem, mutual learning experiences between consumer and provider, broadening understanding of professional roles and responsibilities within the community, interaction with professionals from other disciplines, and opportunities for community-based participatory research projects. [4]